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Share this #ShospleColupis, for no reason. 😅
TIL: create_or_find_by, which is… different from find_or_create_by… https://guides.rubyonrails.org/active_record_querying.html#create-or-find-by
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> anarchism is the only moral system
I agree.
> nor can it survive in nature
I don't know about that. It's based on natural law to start with. For example the circle-A symbol represents (paraphrased) "anarchism is order" with the circle being the "O" in order. That refers to the spontaneous order which arises in things like flocks of birds, schools of fish, economic systems (e.g. free markets), social networks, free software, etc. If you look at international politics, that's anarchism. There's no overarching world government [yet] which can impose a hierarchy from on high, so instead you have a loose ad-hoc system of quasi-consensual relationships, polycentric law, in a near constant state of flux and renegotiation. In fact most of the world arguably functions like this because government and law can only insert itself so far into people's every-day lives in the absence of a totalitarian panopticon. Government and law are always downstream of culture and operating behind the times relative to the prevailing societal ethos.
That's why for instance an area approximately 2.5 million km² across Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, Myanmar, Cambodia, India, Bangladesh, and China, and home to roughly 100 million ethnic minority peoples (aka: Zomia) is considered defacto anarchist, because it's beyond the practical reach of any government. It might be enclosed within national borders, but it's not practical for the governments of those regions to actually impose themselves on the local population in any meaningful way. Tip of the iceberg. When you remove the apparent veneer of government control from how people actually conduct themselves in most of the world, then it's glaringly obvious that anarchism is actually the most widespread style of socio-economic and political organisation, even while it does not in itself have a set form of protocols to dictate how people necessarily conduct themselves. In the words of Karl Hess, "It is simply a statement. We can be free.", or perhaps even better, it's simply the recognition that we always are.
> anarchism is the only moral system
I agree.
> nor can it survive in nature
I don't know about that. It's based on natural law to start with. For example the circle-A symbol represents (paraphrased) "anarchism is order" with the circle being the "O" in order. That refers to the spontaneous order which arises in things like flocks of birds, schools of fish, economic systems (e.g. free markets), social networks, free software, etc. If you look at international politics, that's anarchism. There's no overarching world government [yet] which can impose a hierarchy from on high, so instead you have a loose ad-hoc system of quasi-consensual relationships, polycentric law, in a near constant state of flux and renegotiation. In fact most of the world arguably functions like this because government and law can only insert itself so far into people's every-day lives in the absence of a totalitarian panopticon. Government and law are always downstream of culture and operating behind the times relative to the prevailing societal ethos.
That's why for instance an area approximately 2.5 million km² across Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, Myanmar, Cambodia, India, Bangladesh, and China, and home to roughly 100 million ethnic minority peoples (aka: Zomia) is considered defacto anarchist, because it's beyond the practical reach of any government. It might be enclosed within national borders, but it's not practical for the governments of those regions to actually impose themselves on the local population in any meaningful way. Tip of the iceberg. When you remove the apparent veneer of government control from how people actually conduct themselves in most of the world, then it's glaringly obvious that anarchism is actually the most widespread style of socio-economic and political organisation, even while it does not in itself have a set form of protocols to dictate how people necessarily conduct themselves. In the words of Karl Hess, "It is simply a statement. We can be free.", or perhaps even better, it's simply the recognition that we always are.
@toiletpaper I really just mean if it comes into conflict with an organized national force it will always lose. it can work in smaller cases where it's not in conflict with national power
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@iris_meredith You do realize I don’t actually run US elections, and I didn’t write the US or any state constitution, right? But I do spend a lot of my professional life studying and trying to improve elections, and I’m glad we’ve made significant progress in recent years.
Crazypedia won't Comply 🧿
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alcinnz
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My first try converting my ESP32-S3 SIMD code in my JPEGDEC library into ESP32-S31 SIMD code (Xtensa ASM code into modified RISC-V ASM code). The good news - it didn't crash 🤪
BONG, BONG, BONG
@gerg @LabSpokane so, you don’t actually understand how US elections work, but you’re glad to let us know all the things you assume we’re doing wrong? I will be sure to give your comments all due consideration.
@mattblaze @gerg @LabSpokane It's never really hindered the US from giving any other country advice on how their government should work but I understand why it's irritating.
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lemmy and mastodon are more than just activitypub frontends. mastodon is for microblogging where you follow users while lemmy and other threadiverse software is a discussion forum and news aggregator where you follow communities. it’s cool you can share some posts across these platforms but there is a reason you don’t see the same posts everywhere and that’s a good thing.
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Star Trek would be the best universe to get isekai'd into, because they'd be nice and actually pretty understanding.
"I'm from another dimension or something and I don't know how I got here!"
O'Brien: "...that can happen, we'll run some scans on you or whatever, maybe we can find a weird field and reverse it to send you home?"
"And in the other universe, everything here is a work of fiction!"
Sisko: "That actually happened to me once..."
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Not every message the activitypub can send is suitable for every platform. Reddit style discussions just don’t map to Mastodon.
false. lots of content would fit on both mastodon on lemmy. example post below:
Gaming Night tonight at Augsburgstraße 3, Neues Teehaus, Berlin.
There will be Nintendo games (or Boardgames or whatever) and KüFa.
Everybody is Welcome to Join.
this can be posted on mastodon (from somebody who lives in berlin) or on the threadiverse in the /c/berlin community. it would fit both audiences equally well.
is it really that hard to just repost it on a mastodon account in those cases?
Thanks to a purple Australian puppet, my son has been repeatedly exposed to echidna penis and has heard the phrase "content is king, BUT ONLY CUNTS RIDE UNICYCLES"
@middleclasstool yessss Randy
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Friday night, I was in Montreal to accept the 2026 Freedom of Expression Award from the Canadian Media Lawyers Association, in recognition of a lifetime of work fighting for freedom of speech, open courts and civil liberties as both a journalist and a Senator. It was a truly moving honour to receive - one I share with every colleague who supported me, every editor and publisher who had my back, my Senate colleagues and staff, and all the lawyers who advised, protected and inspired me. #yeg #yul #cdnpoli
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@Luke thank you!!!! - yea going full font library + textures in photoshop and having lots of fun
@TrentWalton keeping goin’ man! Loving it. Love the slower versions.
I think at this point you need a playlist or compilation. An official one.
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This seem to stem from a misunderstanding. Lemmy and Mastodon have different goals. Users of each generally don’t want the other’s content generally showing up en masse.
If you want to see something from Mastodon, you can usually get it on Lemmy, and vice versa. I don’t often see Mastodon posts either, but that’s because I only follow Lemmy communities, so I only see them when someone on Mastodon tags a Lemmy community in their post. If you want to see more Mastodon content, see if you can follow some users or hashtags from Lemmy.
But that might not be supported; I haven’t tried. If you prefer Mastodon, I’m pretty sure that you can follow Lemmy communities from there.
Freelancers need to get better at talking about money. Our silence keeps rates low, and clients benefit from it.
Earlier today there was a Freelancers Get Sh*t Done community session which began from a survey of day rates, published earlier this year. One note on the board summed it up: under-charging hurts us all.
A pricing pact between freelancers would help. I'd go further and ask organisations to sign up to something too.
https://substrate.dougbelshaw.com/freelancers-should-be-better-at-talking-about-money
@dajb The bit that stayed with me: a day rate means little if nobody agrees how long a day is. Six billable hours is not eight, and neither counts pitches, admin or chasing invoices. Price it backwards — what you need in a year, divided by the hours you can actually bill, not 40 a week. And your group's rule is the right lever when the budget is short: cut the scope, keep the rate. Cutting the rate just teaches the next client to ask.
